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Red Cross opens Rocky fire client assistance center Friday
CLEARLAKE, Calif. – The American Red Cross, with local partners and community groups, will be opening a client service center for residents impacted by the Rocky fire on Friday, Aug. 7, at Highlands Senior Service Center, 3245 Bowers Ave., Clearlake.
The center will continue on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
This will be a safe place where affected residents can meet with a variety of community organizations to help create recovery plans and access additional resources.
The groups that will present include:
– Catholic Charities: providing CalFresh Application Assistance and access to Immigration Assistance/ Resources.
– Christian Aid Ministries: providing volunteer-powered debris removal.
– County Social Services: providing representatives to assist with CalFresh and CalWORKS Applications.
– HOPE Animal-Assisted Crisis Response will have therapy dogs present.
– Local Food Pantry Representative: providing emergency food boxes and assorted produce.
– Red Cross: providing recovery planning, referrals and financial assistance.
– Salvation Army: providing vouchers and/or gift cards for local thrift stores, food resources, hygiene needs, and back-to-school supplies.
– Tzu Chi: providing blankets and rice as well as financial assistance to those who qualify.
– United Policy Holders: providing insurance claims assistance to those with insurance policies.
“Our organization encourages impacted residents from Lake County to stop by the service delivery site,” said Jeff Baumgartner, executive director, American Red Cross of the California Northwest. “We have volunteers and staff ready to work with individuals to get them onto their path of recovery.”
In addition, the Red Cross shelters continue to provide for the immediate needs of those affected, including a safe place to stay, food and clothing, emotional support, health services and clean-up supplies (work gloves, masks, etc.).
Evacuated residents, who do not wish to spend the night at the shelter, may still stop by the shelters for meals and to pick up cases of water and cleanup supplies.
Red Cross shelters are currently open at Middletown High School, 20932 Big Canyon Road; and Kelseyville High School, 5480 Main St.
Impacted residents may also call the Red Cross Information Hotline at 415-987-6421 for additional information and assistance.
How to help
A donation to Red Cross Disaster Relief can help provide shelter for someone who has had to leave their home and food and water for them to eat. Help people affected by disasters like wildfires, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes and countless other crises by making a gift to Red Cross Disaster Relief. Your gift enables the Red Cross to prepare for, respond to and help people recover from disasters big and small.
To donate, people can visit www.redcross.org , call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation.
The Red Cross has enough volunteers for this response at this time. Meantime, if you want to be trained as a Red Cross disaster volunteer to respond to future disasters, sign up at www.redcross.org/volunteer .
For updates on the Red Cross response, like the organization on Facebook or follow Red Cross on Twitter, @RedCrossCalNW.